On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Peter Wemm wrote:
> pnpinfo doesn't have anything to do with what the kernel thinks. It's a
> userland program that manually resets and reconfigures the cards.. This is
> an absolute disaster if you happened to be using the hardware, eg: the sound
> driver. After running pnpinfo, the hardware essentially "disappears".
>
> pciconf(8) does it properly, it asks the kernel via /dev/pci. pnpinfo uses
> /dev/io to bash on the ports directly.
Thats kinda weird seeing as how pnpinfo correctly reports the settings as
detected/assigned by the kernel for all other cards.
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